Criminally Underrated albums topic ...

There are Lots to mention on this issue . Some few I can remeber : Fates Warning - Inside Out . Nuclear Assault - 3rd World Genocide and Somehting Wicked . Deliverance - Assimilation and What a Joke . The list goes on and on and on ...

Sepultura - Schizophrenia; this album almost never seems to get mentioned when people talk about how awesome Beneath the Remains and Arise are (rightfully so on those two, especially the former, one of my top five metal albums ever).

Sepultura - Against. I love the hardcore influence on this one. I think a lot of people initially dismissed it originally due to the shock of no Max. People dismiss it now because it wasn't a continuation of Roots (which was the first Soulfly album)

Fear of God - Toxic Voodoo. People seemed not to care for the heavier, less gothic sound from their first one. I thought it was a great piece of doomy groove metal.

Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death. As much praise as Sepultura, Demolition Hammer and other get (and deserve), I hate that this kickass band/album is almost never mentioned.

Wehrmacht - Shark Attack. Classic crossover album on par with anything Suicidal, Ludichrist, Hirax, or Crumbsuckers were putting out at the time.

Life of Agony - Broken Valley. Just a terrific hard rock album that was all but over looked because people still expect River Runs Red II.

Dokken's Dysfunctional was a pretty legit comeback album but it was pretty much ignored.

_________________""We would absolutely love to put out a new record and get lumped in with all of the other '80s bands out there that still record and put out records that nobody really buys." - Jeff LaBar, CINDERELLA

There are Lots to mention on this issue . Some few I can remeber : Fates Warning - Inside Out . Nuclear Assault - 3rd World Genocide and Somehting Wicked . Deliverance - Assimilation and What a Joke . The list goes on and on and on ...

Agreed on Inside Out. Different, sure, but it's a damn good album. I'm likely more forgiving because it was my intro to Fates Warning.

Metallica's Load and Reload. I understand why these albums don't sit well with many Metallica fans, but I think they're both excellent. Rock albums, for sure, and not what Metallica was known for at the time, but that doesn't make a difference to me. To me, they're the last great Metallica albums. Wish they'd have continued in that direction instead of trying to force the whole "thrash metal" thing on subsequent albums.

Metallica's Load and Reload. I understand why these albums don't sit well with many Metallica fans, but I think they're both excellent. Rock albums, for sure, and not what Metallica was known for at the time, but that doesn't make a difference to me. To me, they're the last great Metallica albums. Wish they'd have continued in that direction instead of trying to force the whole "thrash metal" thing on subsequent albums.

I've been getting into Load in the last couple of months. I wasn't a big fan of the self titled album either, so it's not like I avoided it because I thought they sold out or something. I just fell out of love with Metallica around 1990. Didn't get back on board until St. Anger (which I like & heavily mocked for). Since then I've been going back & kind of rediscovering the post Justice albums. Load seems to be the strongest, song wise, of the lot of them. Really not a bad album.

Seems like people only like to talk about age of quarrel, and even lesser best wishes, but there was some killer stuff on this album, the new vocal styles by John Joseph are cool and not really present on other cro mags albums.

Metallica's Load and Reload. I understand why these albums don't sit well with many Metallica fans, but I think they're both excellent. Rock albums, for sure, and not what Metallica was known for at the time, but that doesn't make a difference to me. To me, they're the last great Metallica albums. Wish they'd have continued in that direction instead of trying to force the whole "thrash metal" thing on subsequent albums.

I've been getting into Load in the last couple of months. I wasn't a big fan of the self titled album either, so it's not like I avoided it because I thought they sold out or something. I just fell out of love with Metallica around 1990. Didn't get back on board until St. Anger (which I like & heavily mocked for). Since then I've been going back & kind of rediscovering the post Justice albums. Load seems to be the strongest, song wise, of the lot of them. Really not a bad album.

Load is probably the catchiest of the two, so I guess I'd agree that it's better. Not by much, though.

I Hear Black by Overkill is such a FANTASTIC album . I´d describe it as a somewhat "sludge thrash" or something . Heavily influenced by Black Sabbath . Traditional Heavy Metal roots still present . a solid album , that doesn´t get the recognition it deserves .

Metallica-Load & ReLoad - is criminally underrated ? !! ?I will say this, re-listening to a CD, does, sometimes make you appreciate the band, the release date, a little more.For instance, yesterday, in my car, on the highway, rainy out,I got my CD wallet...and took out Paul DiAnnos Battlezone "Children of Madness"By the time the sixth song was playing - it was like I had awakened...and thought " this is a damn good release "and DiAnno - was - part of the original Maiden line up.....So that's my choice !